Being the world’s fifth largest economy behind the United-States, Japan and Germany, the United Kingdom has many assets which makes it a territory very open to the world. At the crossroads between the Anglo-Saxon culture and a European politics foothold, the country was able to rapidly differentiate itself from the other major economies.

It is widely agreed that European Northern countries, Denmark leading, are models of redistribution of wealth and social cohesion (large and inclusive welfare system, highly democratic institutions, very well developed civil services…) but...